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Greg Woolf

@gregwoolf.bsky.social
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Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.

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Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 3 new and 70 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 9 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one of […] [Original post on hcommons.social]
A greyscale satellite map shows a flat area that includes modern residential structures, trees, and open fields, as well as some larger structures and enclosures. In the center, a blue location symbol is positioned in a field, surrounded by a translucent yellow circle that (making reference to the scale bar labeled 100m) is approximately 200 meters in diameter and therefore takes in about half of the field, some treelines or hedgerows, and a courtyard surrounded by modern buildings. A checkbox below the map is labeled "display location accuracy buffer(s)" and the box contains a checkmark.
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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Finally, the WCC UK is on Bluesky! Lots of exciting updates in the next few months, so do give us a follow @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
📯JOB: Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, History (2 yrs, "connected histories across Indian and Atlantic oceanic world regions and geographies" 🗃️
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Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, History
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, History Barnard College seeks a full-time (earl...
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New blog on how ISAW's Pleiades project collaborated in the creation of Itiner-e, a new digital atlas of the roads of the Roman Empire isaw.nyu.edu/news/pleiade...
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Connecting the Ancient World: Pleiades and Itiner-e
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
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Cambridge University Press
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
If you're free this Thursday morning, I'll be giving a virtual lecture titled "The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians" as part of the 2025−2026 public lecture series hosted by the Bade Museum and Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley. Come join the fun!
Oct 23,2025
 9:30 am PDT
 Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean
 Dr. Eric Harvey | Stanford University
 "The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians"
 Watch live on the
 ARF YouTube channel:
 http://bit.ly/arf-channel
 Image Credit: Left: Figurine of musician (Trustees of the British Museu)
 Right: POW being blinded after defeat in battle (Joan Aruz 2003)
 ARCHAEOLOGICAL
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Dartmouth won’t trade academic freedom for favor from the Trump admin. Incredible. Yet another college rejects the Trump compact. www.nhpr.org/2025-10-18/d...
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Dartmouth rejects Trump’s compact, saying it won’t compromise its academic freedom
Dartmouth was one of nine colleges and universities asked to sign the White House’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The compact offered schools preferential access to federal fu...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/10/2025
The University of Virginia became the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of government demands.
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University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges
It was the fifth school in a matter of days to refuse an offer of preferential funding treatment from the government, even as the White House has threatened schools that do not sign up.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Penn and USC have also rejected the Compact! That makes 4 - stronger together. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Penn, U. of Southern California Reject Trump Compact
The universities follow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University in rejecting the Trump administration’s proposal that would require sweeping changes.
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Very good to see Brown University joining MIT in declining to sign up to the Adminstration's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence" www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
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Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact
In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Sorry to see schools placed in this situation but very glad Newsom is doing this. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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Newsom threatens state funding for California universities that agree to Trump demands
Newsom said California universities that sign what he called the “RADICAL AGREEMENT” will lose state funds, including those for scholarships.
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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025! mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...
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Conference programme
Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Hi Debby, great to see you over here!
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 15/08/2025
In February 1896, two men ploughing a field unearthed one of the greatest prehistoric treasures ever found on the island of Ireland – the Broighter Hoard. #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
A small model of a boat with oars, all made out of gold. It is set against a dark green background
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 14/08/2025
here's a recording of our lecture from earlier this year for UCLA's Global Antiquity symposium; a preview of our in-progress book project, "Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race" @mhanses.bsky.social
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Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race
YouTube video by Global Antiquity UCLA
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
As we continue on to engage other archaeological institutions, we are posting this final statement on the WAC campaign. We, unlike the World Archaeological Congress organisation, will not move quietly on, while Palestinians continue to be starved and slaughtered by Israel.
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AAAWACStatement.pdf
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...
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SHAPE the Future: Call for evidence
The British Academy is opening a call for evidence as part of a new phase of the SHAPE the Future programme, which will seek to examine the progress made against the long-term societal impacts identif...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
It's very telling what happens to the comment whenever I write on this subject. Every other week, the comments in my substack are witty, funny and kind. On this topic, they're bitter, vicious, demented. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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The trans rights stitch-up
How government plans to silence debate on the new rules
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Chris Hinchliff MP @chrishinchliff.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My statement on today's news. 👇
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
heads up historians of the Roman period - very, very, short deadline on this *permanent* job to start this academic year at Uni of Nottingham www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX393/a... 🗃️
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Assistant Professor in Roman History at University of Nottingham
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Roman History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’ FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches! www.ft.com/content/3162...
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Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy
Outgoing president Dame Julia Black calls on ministers to overhaul their ‘confused’ approach to higher education
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Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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102K views · 2.5K reactions | 🐍 🪜 Did you know that the game of snakes and ladders began as a teaching tool in ancient India? Originally known as ‘moksha patam’, the game reflected ideas of karma a...
🐍 🪜 Did you know that the game of snakes and ladders began as a teaching tool in ancient India? Originally known as ‘moksha patam’, the game reflected ideas of karma and progress – with ladders...
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-se...
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ISAW Seeks New Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator
ISAW is seeking a new Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator. The recommended deadline for applications is July 15th, 2025.
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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Working Classicists Awards 2025 TOMORROW 2pm (UK time) Get ready to cheer on our winners! 👀 #WCA2025
Working Classicists Awards 2025
2pm Uk time
05/07/25
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Good to know that with the distractions of a rebellion on welfare reform out of the way, the UK prime minister can devote himself to his key role of commenting on pop festivals.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇
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Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025
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Souly @souly79.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@caramalines.bsky.social I've read the book from Maud Woolf in German, please tell her, I've enjoyed her book.
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Der Bücherwurm 📖📚 @80snerd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Was tut eine erfolgreiche Schauspielerin um allen Events und Verpflichtungen nachzukommen? Sie lässt sich "Kopien" für alle Lebensbereiche anfertigen. Und was, wenn diese Kopien nicht mehr gebraucht werden? Sie schickt die 13. um alle anderen zu töten. #Bücher #Büchertipp #Booktober
"Die 13 Tode der Lulabelle Rock" von Maud Woolf
Das Cover zeigt eine Comiczeichnung einer Frau, die mit einer Pistole in der rechten und einem Softeis in der linken Hand auf der Motorhaube eines Sportwagens sitzt. Im Hintergrund ziehen vor einem schwarzen Himmel und einem gelben Horizont weiße Wolken auf.
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors. I am, though, especially thrilled for Maud Woolf. Lulabelle is her debut and it totally rocks.
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sf-Lit @sf-lit.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"Das Ministerium der Zukunft" von Kaliane Bradley und "Die 13 Tode der Lulabelle Rock" von Maud Woolf sind bereits auf Deutsch erschienen.
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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A gap is revealed in my bookmark collection. I’m very short on things that are or go with neon pink (and this is the third time it’s been a problem in the last year or so). This is the best I can do.
Paperback of Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf, which is predominantly grey, but with neon pink text and crosses over white silhouette faces of a woman. A maroon leather bookmark in the shape of a woman with a pink bikini and gold accents sits on top.
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Buy all six Clarke Award shortlisted books AND support independent book shops? 🚀 Yes please 👍 uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-ar...
THE 2025 SHORTLIST FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD IS:

PRIVATE RITES BY JULIA ARMFIELD

THE MINISTRY OF TIME BY KALIANE BRADLEY

EXTREMOPHILE BY IAN GREEN

ANNIE BOT BY SIERRA GREER

SERVICE MODEL BY ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY

THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK BY MAUD WOOLF
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article... some good news today.
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Really enjoyed Ancient India @britishmuseum.bsky.social today. Buddhism and Jainism against the background of earlier and contemporary religious imagery throughout South Asia.
Religious art from Ancient India
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New issue of Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025) #openaccess @avartnp.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @meganjdaniels.bsky.social @idamhartmann.bsky.social ‬ Mobility and Migration in the ANE avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Fun things happening @isawlibrary.bsky.social medium.com/@nyulibrarie...
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Building Bridges Across the Caucasus
How the Digital South Caucasus Collection Came to Life
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@isawnyu.bsky.social is seeking to recuit a Director for Exhibitions to lead a small but highly skilled team to created exceptional exhibitions and to work with faculty, staff and graduate students across the Institute. Please apply at the following link: uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/14756/job
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Fischer Tor @fischertor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Juhu, unsere Maud Woolf (Die 13 Tode der Luballe Rock) ist für den Arthur C. Clark-Award nominiert worden. Kein Wunder, "Blade Runner meets Barbie" ist doch ein super Pitch. reactormag.com/heres-the-sh...
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Here's the Shortlist for the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award - Reactor
Congratulations to the authors!
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Maud Woolf @maudwoolf.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hello brave new world! Starting off on here with a bang by announcing that my debut novel Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock is shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for 2025! As I have about four followers so far this feels a bit like bragging to an empty room but I’m very happy to be here!
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU @isawnyu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Next month marks the start of this year's Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series! This year is "Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World," presented by Matthew P. Canepa. RSVP here: isaw.nyu.edu/events
Poster for the talk, repeating information provided in the body of the post overlayed on a photograph of a spiral staircase.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 17/04/2025
We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ We’re creating a fighting fund to look at both domestic and international cases, all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights. Join us 👇 goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.
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